Birmingham Environment for Academic Research (BEAR) Newsletter July sees us nearing the end of a busy training, events, and conference season – we look forward to meeting new members of staff at the central induction event on Monday 21 July in the Great Hall. Three members of the team attended STEP-UP RSLondon last week, including myself, who … Continue reading “July 2025 BEAR Newsletter”
Author: Yajie Zhang
High-resolution soil hydrology analysis enabled by BlueBEAR
In this case study, we hear from Guilin Luo, a PhD student in the School of Geography, who has been harnessing BEAR’s advanced computing resources to investigate how temperate forest soils respond to climatic change. By integrating high-resolution environmental monitoring data from the Birmingham Institute of Forest Research (BIFoR) site, and using workflows in R … Continue reading “High-resolution soil hydrology analysis enabled by BlueBEAR”
June 2025 BEAR Newsletter
Birmingham Environment for Academic Research (BEAR) Newsletter Whilst June has seen several of the team head out to conferences and events, including ISC High Performance 2025, we are busy preparing for our own event next week to welcome 15 teams of taught students to the heavily oversubscribed BEAR Challenge 2025, part of the UoB Xtra series of events. … Continue reading “June 2025 BEAR Newsletter”
May 2025 BEAR Newsletter
Birmingham Environment for Academic Research (BEAR) Newsletter As we head into summer, we have a busy events season starting this week with the HPC-SIG in Cambridge, the Thesis Submission event for PGRs, and the BEAR Conference. Hopefully you will have seen that our summer programme of BEAR training workshops (being held online) has now been released, and you can … Continue reading “May 2025 BEAR Newsletter”
Utilising BEAR workshops for Multimodal Analysis in Cognitive Translation Research
In this case study, we hear from Mingjie Zhang, a postgraduate researcher in the Department of Languages, Cultures, Art History and Music (LCAHM), who has been leveraging BEAR workshops to apply digital humanities methods in her project “Translating between Minds: Cognitive Insights of the Dao De Jing.” By integrating tools such as R, Python, Matlab, and GitHub—learned … Continue reading “Utilising BEAR workshops for Multimodal Analysis in Cognitive Translation Research”
April 2025 BEAR Newsletter
Birmingham Environment for Academic Research (BEAR) Newsletter Earlier this month, members of the Research Software Group led the RSE Midlands 2025 meeting at The Exchange featuring a wide range of talks showcasing research software, from Research Software Engineers (RSEs) through to researchers – we will provide a summary of the event in a future newsletter. Yesterday was … Continue reading “April 2025 BEAR Newsletter”
March 2025 BEAR Newsletter
Birmingham Environment for Academic Research (BEAR) Newsletter This month we reached our 1500th publication logged where BEAR services have been used during the research, congratulations to Aaron Scott from the Department of Inflammation and Ageing! We will be featuring a case study on his research in a future newsletter. In team news this week, we were … Continue reading “March 2025 BEAR Newsletter”
February 2025 BEAR Newsletter
Birmingham Environment for Academic Research (BEAR) Newsletter This month we will be meeting new staff starters at the Central Induction and delivering the ‘Data and AI for Researchers’ session for the fully-booked UoB Data Conference, with researchers from across the University describing how they are using our services to benefit their research – we will provide … Continue reading “February 2025 BEAR Newsletter”
November BEAR Newsletter
Birmingham Environment for Academic Research (BEAR) Newsletter This month, we have exciting news about award-winning research in the international HPCwire awards, plus three posts available within Advanced Research Computing. Further to October’s newsletter, our two student teams for the CIUK Cluster Challenge, return-1 and TED, have now completed challenge 3. Results are still to be … Continue reading “November BEAR Newsletter”
October BEAR Newsletter
Birmingham Environment for Academic Research (BEAR) Newsletter We have been busy meeting lots of new PhD researchers this month at their inductions, as well as over 100 members of staff at the Staff Benefits Fair last week. Welcome to those who have just joined the mailing list – it is great to see all the … Continue reading “October BEAR Newsletter”